Erasmus University Rotterdam

Graduate Student, Department of Philosophy

PhD Student Practical Philosophy

Thesis Title: Operative Unconscious Prejudices - Reflections on the Normative Implications of Research in the Behavioral, Cognitive and Neurosciences and in Linguistics

About

I work as a PhD student at the Department of Philosophy of the Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Netherlands) within Maureen Sie's VIDI-project titled "Conscious Control, Deliberative Awareness, and Moral Agency". This project aims to think through the implications of the paradigm of adaptive unconsciousness in social and moral psychology for philosophical conceptualizations.

My own research question: Can a narrative account of personhood accommodate the ascription of moral responsibility to agents for acts they performed without prior conscious deliberation?

I had to disrupt my research for medical reasons from June-December 2010.

Overview of conferences, workshops and presentations:
2011
•  September 20:  during the workshop on Actions and Artefacts I gave a brief comment on Dr. Joel Anderson presentation ‘ Can Artefacts Extend Willpower?’ at the TU Eindhoven (The Netherlands)
•  August 21-25: I attended the OZSE Summer school Contemporary Psychology and the Moral Point of View; I gave a presentation titled Social Interaction and living up to one’s aspirations: Consequences of the tension between the “what” and the “who”. I followed private tutorials with Valerie Tiberius and Dan Haybron on narrative identity and self-narrative in relation to autonomy and responsibility
•  August 20: I co-organized a Roundtable Discussion on Reason Responsiveness and Moral Responsibility
•  July 18-19: I attended a Conference on ‘Conceptions of Personhood and their Limits’ at Cologne University (Germany)
•  June 23-24, 2011: I gave a presentation titled ‘Fragility as a key notion of moral nature & moral identity’ at the VU Conference ‘What makes us moral’ in Amsterdam(The Netherlands)
•  May 25-27: I gave a presentation titled ’Reactive interactions & moral emotions’ at the 3TU Conference Moral Emotions & Intuitions in The Hague (The Netherlands)
•  April 28-29: I attended the ICI Conference on ‘Situating Mental Illness- Between Scientific Certainty and Personal Narrative’ in Berlin (Germany)
•  March 31: I attended the International Symposium on Narrative Research organized by the University of Humanistics in Utrecht (The Netherlands)

2010
•  August 23-26: Maureen Sie presented our co-authored paper on ’Collective Intentionality and Intergroup Interactions: Individual Responsibility for Unwarranted Stereotyping and Prejudices’  at the VIIth Conference on Collective Intentionality in Basel
•  June 12: my paper ‘Self and Other in Intergroup Interactions’ was read for me as I could not physically attend the12th Annual Southampton Graduate Conference on ‘Me, Myself, and I’
•  March 10: I attended a Conference on ‘Empirical Ethics’ at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands)
•  March 28-31: I gave a presentation titled ‘A New Conceptualisation of Cognitive Processes in Intergroup Interaction’ at the Conference on ‘Philosophical Implications of Empirically Informed Ethics’ at the University of Zürich(Switzerland)
•  February 9:I attended James Griffin’s OZSE Masterclass ‘On Human Rights’ organised by the KNAW in Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
•  February 8: I attended the Conference on ‘Human dignity - history and actuality of a controversial concept

2009
•  Fall: I attended the OZSE Winter Seminar Ethics & Empirical Sciences; I presented ‘John Dorris’ Lack of Character –what’s missing?’
•  October 2-3: I attended the First Annual Dutch Conference in Practical Philosophy in Doorn (The Netherlands)
•  September 20-27: I attended the SEI Summer School ‘The Social Self’ in Alghero (Italy) and presented ‘Narrative, Moral Responsibility & the Self’
•  August 24-27: I attended the3TU Conference ‘Moral Responsibility: Neuroscience, Organization & Engineering’
•  July 13-24: I attended the CEU Summer school on ‘Aspects of Responsibility’ in Budapest (Hungary); unfortunately I had to leave earlier because of family circumstances


Publication:
Enkele geschreven penportretjes in: Hoezo Vrije Wil, M. Sie (ed), Lemniscaat 2011 (biographies of some philosophers in the debate on Free Will)

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